Dutch woman murdered, baby critical in Cambodia: police

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Dutch woman murdered, baby critical in Cambodia: police

PHNOM PENH, April 29, 2014 (AFP) - A Dutch woman was found stabbed to death Monday while her two-year-old baby daughter was critically wounded in an attack at their home in the Cambodian capital, according to police.

The 31-year-old was discovered with several stab wounds, according to Mom Sitha, the chief of the Phnom Penh police unit that oversees crimes involving foreigners.

Her baby daughter was critically wounded and has been sent to Thailand for treatment, he said.

"We don't know the motive yet... we are investigating," Mom Sitha added, without giving any further information on the circumstances of the crime.


-- (c) Copyright AFP 2014-04-29

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Dutch national murdered in Phnom Penh home



PHNOM PENH: -- Dutch woman working for the United Nations was found stabbed to death on Monday morning in an attack that also left her 19-month-old baby daughter in critical condition, The Phnom Penh Post reported.

Daphna Beerdsen was found by the family’s babysitter lying alongside her child in their rented house in Phnom Penh’s Chamkarmon district shortly before 9am.

Police at the scene said Beerdsen, whose LinkedIn profile says she worked as a consultant on climate change projects for UN Habitat, died from several stab wounds. Her child is in a critical condition after being stabbed multiple times with what appeared to be the same weapon, which has not been recovered.

Chan Sahuth, an officer with the Ministry of Interior’s Criminal Investigation Department, said the child is in a bad condition with a blood cot in the brain and is being prepared to be forwarded to Thailand.

Police are still investigating at the scene of the murder in Tonle Bassac commune and have not ruled out robbery as a motive. However, police said they found no evidence of forced entry.

Beerdsen’s husband, Joris Oele, 34, returned home at about 1pm and was escorted into the courtyard of his house by a British embassy official.

Oele, who also works for UN Habitat, left the capital on a work trip to Preah Sihanouk province on Sunday, according to neighbours.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/dutch-national-murdered-phnom-penh-home/


-- Thai PBS 2014-04-29

[neverdie]

A heinous crime. Hopefully the child recovers and the perpetrator caught quickly.

[borisloosebrain]

Hard to fathom a crime like this. Unspeakably awful. Hope the baby pulls through.

[Nemesis7]

What kind of an animal would harm a baby?? Hope the agencies they soon find the criminal and set an example by giving the toughest punishment imaginable .

[somchaismith]

It's not just restricted to Phuket then.

[mrdome]

I am shocked. I hope the child will pull through. R.I.P. to its mother - as said before who stabs a baby? Simply incomprehensible.

[WoopyDoo]

Disturbing news indeed.

Hope baby recovers.

Might have been a bad idea flying it to Thailand though. Hong Kong would be a better chance for it.

[stickylies]

RIP

[transam]

Scum are out there. I or you do not know who or where they are. In any country for that matter. Catching this shit will be a task.......I just pray it happens.

[A1Str8]

Not trying to be off topic but whoever killed that woman should have just stabbed himself as the world doesn't need b__ch made people.

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[drand11]

Damn..he stabbed the baby. Can't imagine.

[riverchapel]

is Cambodia danger place to live?I would like to go there for a trip to Angkor Wat...

[ggt]

is Cambodia danger place to live?I would like to go there for a trip to Angkor Wat...

You should be safe there...so long as you stay in the areas frequented by foreign tourists...Cambodian people IMO...are not as friendly as the Thais and Vietnamese...trashy place...most will not give a foreigner permission to take a picture of them...still recovering from being persecuted for decades by their tyrant dictator....Pol Pot...

[Peterphuket]

The baby is already arrived in BKK for bether threatment.

[bluebluewater]

Knife attacks are a crime of passion. Multiple stab wound with no evidence of forced entry suggest someone who knew the victims very well.

Husband, boyfriend, etc. I've done a few investigations like this and I'd be looking hard at this to begin with.

Who knows what the police there will do . . . .

[Jimmu]

Knife attacks are a crime of passion. Multiple stab wound with no evidence of forced entry suggest someone who knew the victims very well.

Husband, boyfriend, etc. I've done a few investigations like this and I'd be looking hard at this to begin with.

Who knows what the police there will do . . . .

Well Detective! It wasn't a knife attack... How does that change things?

[stickylies]

cambodia is a safe as any other place on this SICK planet. what happened during the pol pot years has nothing to do with this f.f.s.

please do NOT write bs in this serious post. a woman got killed like plenty get killed each day in USA so pls keep your crap for yourself.

most cambodian people have never experienced PP regime.

[Jip99]

is Cambodia danger place to live?I would like to go there for a trip to Angkor Wat...

You should be safe there...so long as you stay in the areas frequented by foreign tourists...Cambodian people IMO...are not as friendly as the Thais and Vietnamese...trashy place...most will not give a foreigner permission to take a picture of them...still recovering from being persecuted for decades by their tyrant dictator....Pol Pot...

Absolute rubbish - but this is not the thread on which to debate the merits or otherwise of the Khmer people.

RIP

[Scott]

Off-topic posts deleted.

[JimHuaHin]

What kind of an animal would harm a baby?? Hope the agencies they soon find the criminal and set an example by giving the toughest punishment imaginable .

"What kind of an animal would harm a baby?" - do you remember Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge 'killing fields'?, babies and children were not spared then.

[Scott]

Let's stay on the topic of the thread. The massive destruction of the Khmer culture has no doubt had an effect on the people and it will take time for the culture to grow and flourish. It's also a country that is still developing.

At this point in the discussion, we might want to be careful about speculation on an entire nation based on this one tragic event.

[benjay747]

Thanks for your moderation, Scott. There's hope for this forum yet. Ive even registered!

[smileydude]

Sad day indeed. I cannot fathom the level of evilness required to stab a baby but sadly it exists.

Its with crimes like this that I support capital punishment.

Rest in peace and hopefully karma exists and the murderer pays for it in several lifetimes.

[hanno]

Latest news is that the (a) perp has been caught.

[Sheryl]

A person has been arrested.

In Cambodia especially this can't be assumed to mean that there is evidence to suggest their guilt. Maybe yes, maybe no. It is quite common to arrest random people just to pin the blame, especially in a high profile case. It is also standard practice in cases where the actual perpetrators are persons of influence.

Too soon I think to have any idea if this is one of those cases or if they actually apprehended someone based on evidence of guilt.

The initial details of the crime as well as some other factors were such as to suggest this might not have been a random act of violence.

[Morch]

Police Quiet But Details Emerge in Murder of Dutch Woman

Police said Tuesday they had no leads in the case of a Dutch woman found stabbed to death along with her critically injured 19-month-old baby in her Phnom Penh home Monday morning. But the victim’s cleaner, who discovered the bloody bodies, revealed a number of observations about the crime scene.

Keo Somaly, who discovered the dead body of Daphna Beerdsen and her barely-living daughter, said Tuesday that police had prevented her from taking the critically injured child to the hospital until they inspected the scene.

“Even though we could see the baby had a pulse, they took pictures first before they allowed her to go to the hospital,” said Ms. Somaly, 28, adding that it was between 20 and 30 minutes before police allowed a neighbor to take the toddler to hospital on a motorcycle-taxi.

http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-quiet-but-details-emerge-in-murder-of-dutch-woman-57727/

Cambodia arrests suspect in Dutch murder

Phnom Penh - Cambodian police said on Wednesday they had arrested a man who confessed to the murder of a Dutch woman in a brutal attack that left her two-year-old daughter critically wounded.

Daphna Beerdsen, aged 31, who worked as a UN consultant in Cambodia, was found stabbed to death at her home on Monday.

Her daughter has been medically evacuated to Thailand for emergency treatment.

http://www.news24.com/World/News/Cambodia-arrests-suspect-in-Dutch-murder-20140430

[MyFriend You]

Knife attacks are a crime of passion. Multiple stab wound with no evidence of forced entry suggest someone who knew the victims very well.

Husband, boyfriend, etc. I've done a few investigations like this and I'd be looking hard at this to begin with.

Who knows what the police there will do . . . .

Well Detective! It wasn't a knife attack... How does that change things?

Hmmm what part of this did you not understand?? A Dutch woman was found stabbed to death Monday

[Wacoal]

i like the bit about stealing a bicycle. see how high the fence/gate is? hes going to be lifting that bicycle single handed over that locked gate. cambos arent known to be tall either

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/arrest-confession-dutch-womans-murder

bicycles dont have any face value in cambo perspective, perhaps even the opposite, and surely there are better pickings/choices in a suburb full of grossly overpaid international NGOs

cambos are renowned for pilfering stuff from a crime scene/accident after the event so if the bicycle is missing it was more likely first responders/observers who took it AFTER the gate was opened.

who did it? who can pin the blame on a holier than than when there are ample errant no faced poors around to fall at will.

[daveAustin]

is Cambodia danger place to live?I would like to go there for a trip to Angkor Wat...

Generally ok I hear, though I guess you haven't read the thread about the Canadian winding up murdered near one the gates there recently?